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Orange Camp widening set for 2014

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By Pat Andrews
Beacon Staff Writer

posted Dec 7, 2012 - 12:36:08pm

A long-awaited road-widening project will get started on Orange Camp Road, probably in 2014. A stretch of the road between Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Beltway and Interstate 4 will be four-laned at an estimated cost of $4.5 million.

Bowyer-Singleton Associates is already at work, surveying and mapping the area.

“As soon as the survey is completed in the next couple of months, then we’ll start the design,” County Engineer Gerald Brinton said.

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Budgeted for fiscal year 2013-14, the work will probably begin in the spring or summer of 2014, he said.

The widening will help move traffic on the roadway, which has increased as Victoria Park communities have built up along Orange Camp and MLK Beltway in recent years. The intersection of Orange Camp and MLK will be improved, with full turn lanes at all approaches.

Though Orange Camp is a county road and improvements will be a county project, the Victoria Park subdivision is in the city of DeLand.

“We reviewed some of the plans for it, providing input to the county design,” City Engineer Keith Riger said.

Kolter Land Partners from Palm Beach County purchased Victoria Park from the St. Joe Co. in December 2009. St. Joe Co. pulled out completely.

That gave rise to concern about the payment of road-impact fees, but the obligation has been met, Riger said.

City of DeLand Planning Director Mike Holmes said Victoria Park builders have paid more than $2.4 million in road-impact fees to Volusia County since the project began.

Money from the gasoline-tax bond will help pay the cost of the improvements, County Manager Jim Dinneen said.

— pat@beacononlinenews.com

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Scott | posted Dec 12, 2012 - 1:12:43pm

4.5 million investment for developers. Another sign of growth paying for itself. This doesn't even inlucde the additional cost of the roads the county put in or improved for St Joe.

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Pat Droney | posted Dec 9, 2012 - 7:10:22am

Come off I-4 onto Orange Camp Rd. and then wanting to go north on Kepler Rd. between 5 and 6pm. A right turn lane is needed, it does get backed up. Look at the side of the road there where cars have driven on the shoulder to make a right turn.

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Sarah | posted Dec 8, 2012 - 1:20:39pm

I agree with Marco. I drive it everyday. Never congested. Why waste money. And... what about the rest like Tom said. They need it more.

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marco | posted Dec 8, 2012 - 12:23:36pm

I drive this road to visit friends in Lake Helen. Not really that congested why spend the Money

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tom | posted Dec 7, 2012 - 5:40:33pm

So what about the rest of Orange Camp from MLK to Woodland? Smart move, dump 4 lanes into 2 lanes, of yeah real smart....

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